12021-01-27T12:34:03-06:00Jane Darcovich74607e991e3aae385523e2a142f659c2efe61099137plain2023-11-03T10:51:55-05:00Dan Harpereff3db32ed95b3efe91d381826e2c10c145cd452The Commercial Club was created in the late nineteenth century to promote economic development in and around Chicago. Club members often came from an elite group of wealthy Chicagoans, among them George Pullman and Marshall Field. Like other civic improvement clubs, the Commercial Club focused on social reform and city planning. They distributed Burnham’s Plan of Chicago in 1909. The Commercial Club endorsed the creation of more city parks and playgrounds and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.
12021-03-02T09:46:21-06:00Commercial Club of Chicago Anniversary Tribute, 19056Chicago Commercial Association. Anniversary Tribute of the Chicago Commercial Association, 1905, page 1. Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Illinois Chicago Library.plain2023-09-15T15:32:02-05:00
